WEISZ APPREHENSIVE ABOUT PLAYING KENNEDY
Actress RACHEL WEISZ is already feeling the huge responsibility of playin g JACKIE KENNEDY in husband DARREN ARONOFSKY’s new film - because she’s a Brit portraying an American icon.
The Mummy star will lead the cast in Jackie, which follows the beloved former U.S. First Lady as she copes with the assassination of her husband , President John F. Kennedy, in 1963.
And, although she can’t wait to get started on research for the role, s he’s also a little anxious about how America will accept her as Jackie.
She tells WENN, "It’s a recent project so the script is being developed and it’s a great script. I will have to start to do some reading.
"Jackie Kennedy is American royalty and a 20th century icon, so it’s ex tremely scary, daunting, challenging and a huge responsibility. I don’t k now exactly how I will play her yet because I haven’t started really work ing on it, but of course it’s a big responsibility."
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